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Some of the better pictures I've taken - some grudgingly also by my wife...

Mostly in South England, and along it's coastline

Some Basics about Photography

Some notes I wrote to help me get to grips more with light and exposure - with quite some help from sites like:

Bob Atkins

Ken Rockwell

My Camera Body

Canon EOS 40D

My Lenses

Canon USM EF-S 10-22, f/3.5-4.5:

  • Equivalent to 16 - 35.2 (35mm format)
  • Minimum hand held speeds (1/f-length): 1/15 – 1/30 sec
  • Very little vignetting at any focal length or aperture
  • Adjusting the polarizer for maximum effect will usually result in uneven sky brightness with any wide lens. Avoid using polarizer at 10mm
  • Sharp across all apertures, even at f3.5 – slight increase in sharpness at f4.0/5.6
  • Little CA, mostly at 10mm end
  • Closest Focus: 0.24m / 9½ inches
  • Filter Size: 77mm
  • Weight: 385g / 13.6 oz
  • Field curvature at the wide end can make it difficult to work with. Bodies like the EOS350D aren’t accurate enough with focusing to decide that infinity really IS infinity, so you need to manually focus at 10mm for sharp landscapes (or use f16)
  • If you are using the cokin system then you can't go all the way out without getting vignetting from the filter holder

Canon USM EF 28-105 f/3.5-4.5:

  • Equivalent to 44.8 – 168 (35mm format)
  • Minimum hand held speeds (1/f-length): 1/45 – 1/168 sec
  • Sharp from f5.6, seems best at f8
  • Stop to f8 to suppress soft edges
  • No zoom creep
  • Closest Focus: 0.5m / 1.6 ft.
  • Filter Size: 58mm
  • Weight: 375g / 13.1 oz

Canon USM EF 70-300, f/4-5.6L IS:

  • Equivalent to 112 – 480 (35mm format)
  • True 4-stop image stabiliser
  • Minimum hand held speeds (1/f-length): 1/28 – 1/120 sec
  • Sharp across the range
  • Vignettes at f/4 on a full frame camera
  • Closest Focus: 1.5m / 3.9 ft.
  • Filter Size: 67mm
  • Weight: 1050g / 2.3 lb

Canon USM EF 100-300, f/4.5-5.6:

  • Equivalent to 161 – 480 (35mm format)
  • Minimum hand held speeds (1/f-length): 1/161 – 1/480 sec
  • Softer at long end
  • Best at f8 - f11
  • Dips badly at f22-f32
  • Closest Focus: 1.2m / 4.9 ft.
  • Filter Size: 58mm
  • Weight: 540g / 1.2 lb

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